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Definition founder

Etymology 1

From Old French fondeur, from Latin fund?tor.

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)
2. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

Etymology 2

From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (�pour, melt, cast�)

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
2. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

Etymology 3

From Middle French fondrer (�send to the bottom�), from Latin fundus (�bottom�)

Verb

founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)

1. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
2. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
3. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
4. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
5. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

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